The majority of those injured in the avalanche have been Nepalese. Among the dead are 3 of the icefall doctors—Sherpa guides who weave the route through the icefall every year.

I can see we aren’t making much progress here.

Obviously the tragedy at EBC does not overshadow the situation Kathmandu, but they are both tragedies and blaming the victims just for being at base camp is not constructive in any way.

It’s garbage like this that makes me question the Kinja system. How can an awful person like this be a commenter followed by Sploid?

Those above EBC are mostly fine. The route through the icefall is destroyed by they will likely be evacuated by helicopter eventually.

Along with the direct damage from shaking, the earthquake has triggered many landslides and avalanches in the region’s over-steepened slopes. At least one avalanche hit Khumbu Icefall on Everest, trapping climbers in basecamps by destroying the routes out.

I bike around 40-50 miles per week on the streets of Chicago. There is no simple solution here. A few things that need to happen:

Why is someone cleaning windows on the 91st floor in high winds in the first place? This seems pretty straightforward for either the employee or employer to prevent. Check weather >> if high winds are predicted, no washing windows on the 91st floor today. Let's say the weather report is unreliable... check wind…

Haha, this is exactly what I was going to post. I used to work in the Sears Tower and these creepy robots would cruise by every now and then.

Hey Interstellar, did you know the internet is on computers these days?

The most offensive part of this video is everything but spaces is typed with either the middle finger on his left hand or the pointer finger on his right hand. It's maddening. I praise my time as a kid spent with Mavis Beacon and wonder if this is how I would have turned out without that software—staring at the…

8' in 18 hours is nuts. I imagine that is the largest dump of snow ever recorded in 24 hours. I immediately thought of the storm on Mt. Rainier in September 2013, but even that likely didn't have 8' in 18 hours (the forecast called for 15' over the course of 3 days at 12,000' and I'm sure no one was up there to…

In fairness, your point about synthetics melting is a valid one. It is something to be aware of.

Take it down a notch. "Cotton kills" is a common expression used in the outdoor industry to sum up what Wes is talking about in this article. The headline is entirely appropriate as many amateur outdoor enthusiasts are familiar with the expression, but not the science behind it.

Puzzle & Dragons is incredibly involved and takes a great deal of skill to play at a high level. It is well-balanced and well-designed; not just a game where you have to pay to progress at a certain point.

I personally like when people criticize the tesseract scene near the end as if humans in 2015 could even understand if this would ever be possible in the future.

Found it! The bike chain runs behind the frame here.

It's hard to accurately count such elusive creatures but the WWF estimates there are up to 100,000 left in the wild

Agreed. I use a DS3. I cannot get behind a 360 controller simply because of the horrendous d-pad.